Category: Information that empowers!
Cooperative Housing Societies(CHS) and Resident Welfare Associations(RWA) spreading fake news saying that dogs and cats can cause COVID is a violation of the Disaster Management Act 2005. Strict action will be taken against such misinformation by the Government of India….
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Articles, Be the Change, Do you know?, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Take Action!
Tags: Compassionate Citizen, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Disaster Management Act, Dogs and Cats don't spread Coronavirus, Government of India, India, Indian Veterinary Council, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Government of India)
Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (abbreviated as ‘MHA’) on 25th March, 2020 has issued an addendum (meaning “add-on”) to its guidelines issued on 24th March 2020, asking Veterinary Hospitals and pharmacies to remain operational during the lockdown, which…
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Please carry printouts of the PM’s advisory to the States about street animal welfare, and the letter from the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Upamanyu Basu, to show the authorities if they stop you from feeding. Please also…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Against Pet Abandonment, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Articles, Awareness Posters for Animal/Bird Welfare, Be the Change, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Lovers, Animal welfare, Animal Welfare Board of India, Animals, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dogs and Cats don't spread Coronavirus, India, Narendra Modi, Veterinary aid, Veterinary Council of India, veterinary services
Senior BJP Leader and Member of Parliament, Maneka Gandhi on Saturday said that “The coronavirus is not transmitted through live animals.” Please scroll below to watch a news clipping, on this subject. She has also issued a letter on her…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Against Pet Abandonment, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Articles, Awareness Posters for Animal/Bird Welfare, Be the Change, Court Judgements on Animal Issues - India, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Stories from Ground Zero, Videos on Animals
Tags: Animal Lovers, Animal welfare, compassion, Compassionate Citizen, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Kindness, kindness to animals, Maneka Gandhi
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory body under the Government of India, has written to the chief secretaries of all State governments and Union Territories to ensure the well-being of pet animals amid the Corona virus threat….
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Category: Against Pet Abandonment, Animals, Awareness Posters for Animal/Bird Welfare, Be the Change, Do you know?, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, News Reports, Pets
Tags: Animal Lovers, Animal Welfare Board of India, Arjun Kapoor, Cat lovers, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dog lovers, Dogs and Cats don't spread Coronavirus, Kindness, Mini Mathur, Twinkle Khanna, World Health Organisation
In coronavirus crisis, lessons for us, writes President Ram Nath Kovind – in The Hindustan Times, dated March 20, 2020 “Respect Nature *Humankind’s craving to control nature and exploit all its resources for profit can be wiped out in a…
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Category: Articles, Be the Change, Environment, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, India, Love Animals, One Earth, President, Ram Nath Kovind, Respect Nature
Important message for stray animal feeders/caregivers in the light of complete lockdown announced by state governments of Maharashtra, Delhi and several other states to prevent further spread of COVID-19: Please understand that there is a difference between lockdown and curfew….
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Category: Animal Laws of India, Be the Change, Information that empowers!
Tags: Adopt an Indian Dog, Animal Laws, Animal People, Animal welfare, Cat lovers, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dog lovers, Dogs and Cats don't spread Coronavirus, India, Lockdown
Below is the copy of the Legal Notice sent by a Delhi based Animal Welfare Activist Rishi Dev to the Concerned Office Bearers in the SDMC i.e. South Delhi Municipal Corporation. It is to be noted that SDMC had advertised…
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Category: Articles, Be the Change, Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Series, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Take Action!
Tags: Fine, India, Mayor of SDMC, Pet Dogs, Pick up the Poop, Responsible Pet Ownership, SDMC, South Delhi, South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Street Dogs
*Guest Post by Ms.Madhu Goyal Recently there have been several complaints about unethical practices at some dog boardings, of dogs being confined in unaoccupied broken-down buildings, dogs chained to gates and driveways in the hot sun without water and in…
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We are quoting below verbatim from the Facebook post put by, Advocate Ms.Anjali Sharma, so that those who feed street dogs in Delhi and elsewhere can use this information BELOW to counter the misinformation that has spread following recent news…
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Category: Animal Laws of India, Articles, Be the Change, Court Judgements on Animal Issues - India, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Series, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Laws, AWBI, Delhi, Delhi High Court, Misreporting by Indian Media houses, Street Dog Feeding Guidelines, Street Dogs
Dodo and Chiku are two brave young Indian female dogs adopted as community dogs by Shivani, Priya and their young group of friends in Masjid Moth area of New Delhi! For it was their barking that alerted Shivani and Priya’s…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, First Aid Service, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Medical treatment of Animals, Relationships, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Jaagruti's On-Site First Aid Service, JAAGRUTI™'s Street Animal First Aid and Vaccination Service, On-site First Aid Service for Street Animals in Delhi, Vaccination Service for Dogs in Delhi
The Interim order of the Supreme Court of India passed on the 18th Nov 2015 while hearing ‘all street dog related matters’ emphatically directs that the laws made viz. PCA Act, 1960 and the ABC(Dogs) Rules, 2001 have to be implemented and that there shall not be any indiscriminate killing of dogs. The Supreme Court Order observed that “There can be no trace of doubt that there has to be compassion for dogs and that they should not be killed in an indiscriminate manner…”
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Articles, Court Judgements on Animal Issues - India, Do you know?, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Delhi, India, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dogs, Supreme Court of India
As shared by Ms. Anjali Sharma, Board Member and Legal Advisor to the Animal Welfare Board of India, Ministry of Environment , Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. And this is what the 5th August 2015 Delhi High Court…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Articles, Court Judgements on Animal Issues - India, Information that empowers!
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Birth Control Rules 2001, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, AWBI, Delhi, Delhi High Court, India, Street Dogs
As per letter No. DSPCA/(I) Admin/2015/22/665 dated 5th March 2015, issued by Mr. Kaushal Kishore, Administarive Officer, DSPCA (Delhi Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) shared in this blog post, people in Delhi should please make a note of…
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This Holi, play it safe. Do ensure however, that in either your love towards the street or pet animals you care for OR in your post-bhaang madness you don’t put the colourful, toxic, harmful, chemical laced powdered or liquid Holi…
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It is the right of every consumer to know if the product they are using is ‘vegetarian’ or not. Identification of food items of animal origin was made easier when the red and green dots were made mandatory. Going a…
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This post is courtesy the inputs shared by Ms. Gauri Maulekhi, Co-opted Member, Animal Welfare Board of India As per the below mentioned order dated 6th August 2014, issued by Director (Enforcement) of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India…
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After the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon’s directive to Presidents of all Gurgaon-based Residential Welfare Associations (RWAs) to stop harassing people/residents who have pets and tend to street dogs, comes the below mentioned letter issued by Federation of Noida Resident Welfare Associations to…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Articles, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Series, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Birth Control Rules 2001, Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Directive by MCG to RWAs against banning pets, Federation of Noida Resident Welfare Associations, Federation of Noida RWAs, Gurgaon, India, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), Noida, People, Pet Dogs, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Residential Welfare Associations, RWA, RWAs, Street Dogs
Please remember that for the animals, if not for yourself, you need to be strong and fight this out. While you can approach local animal welfare organisations or animal activists, but in the end, it is a fight you will…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Be the Change, Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Series, Games people play, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Birth Control Rules 2001, Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Animals, Constitution of India, F.I.R, High Court, India, Indian Penal Code, Judiciary and the animals, longreads, Police, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs, Supreme Court of India
This post is a much needed compilation we did using the information available on http://www.jaagore.com and www.ipaidabribe.com, so that people who wish to report animal-related crimes and/or are facing instances of criminal intimidation and harassment from neighbours/RWAs/fellow society people (meted out…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Series, Information that empowers!
Tags: Criminal Procedure Code, CrPC, F.I.R, India, Indian Penal Code, Police, Reporting cruelty on animals, Reporting cruelty or harassment meted out to animal caretakers and animal right activists
The Hindu published the following article on the laws pet owners have to keep animals in their houses With apartment complexes becoming the norm, it becomes important for pet owners to understand their rights and responsibilities, for the welfare of their…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare Board of India, Bangalore, Central Mumbai Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Constitution of India, Delhi, Dogs, India, Indian Penal Code, Mumbai, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, People, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Registrar of Societies (ROS)
High-decibel noise during festivals like Diwali can be very traumatic for animals. Children think its fun to throw crackers at them and watch the poor animals suffer. Parents should prevent kids from doing this. Here are 10 tips that pet owners,…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Environment, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, News Reports, Pets, Take Action!
Tags: Diwali, India, Say NO to Firecrackers, Street Animals
Below are embedded image files/scans of a 3 page letter issued by Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon to Presidents of all RWAs in Gurgaon to stop harassing people who tend to street dogs and those who have pets (by…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Games people play, Information that empowers!, Pets, Stories from Ground Zero, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Directive by MCG to RWAs against banning pets, Gurgaon, India, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), People, Pet Dogs, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, RWA, Street Dogs
On-site First Aid Treatment for Prevention and Cure of Maggot wounds in Street Animals: It is the onset of warm weather and humid conditions that trigger an onset of maggot wound related queries on our helpline and the below treatment…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Medical treatment of Animals, Pets, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animals, Betadiene, Cipladine, D-mag spray, Dogs, Gotbac powder, Himax, India, longreads, Lorexane, maggot, Topicure, Turpentine Oil, Veterinary aid, Weak tincture iodine
We at ‘Jaagruti’ think that this manual serves as a handy asset for all of us who look after our neighborhood street dogs in India and often find ourselves stuck! Download The Dog Care Field Manual by Harrell Graham by clicking here …
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Take Action!
Tags: Animal People, first aid for dogs, First Aid for street dogs, Harrell Graham, Merrit Clifton, Veterinary aid
Living with Street Dogs – (Dog Bite) Following up on our post prior to this, we found the article on this link extremely informative as well on the subject of how dogs and humans can co-exist in peace and dog…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animals, Articles, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animals, Awareness, Dog Behaviour, Dogs, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, People, Pets, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
Often, on our helpline, blog comments section, we get a lot of queries on how should people be behaving around street dogs so as to not provoke them or get bitten…while we do share what we know over those forums,…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animals, Dog Behaviour, Dogs, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, People, Pets, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Constitution of India, Delhi, Delhi High Court, Dogs, India, Indian Penal Code, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
Everyday, we receive many queries and calls over the Jaagruti helpline complaining about how their Residential Society’s Welfare Associations (commonly abbreviated as RWA’s) putting up notices ‘banning pets’, coming out with ‘no pets allowed’ clauses in their society bye-laws, ‘asking…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Pets, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare Board of India, Central Mumbai Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Constitution of India, Delhi, Dogs, India, Indian Penal Code, Mumbai, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, People, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Registrar of Societies (ROS), The Environment (Protection) Act – 1986, Wildlife Protection Act 1972
To all those who feed and take care of their neighbourhood street dogs in India, we have one request. Don’t feel weak. The laws are on your side and also in favour of the street dogs you care for. In…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Animals, Delhi, Dogs, India, Judiciary and the animals, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Police, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
Animal Welfare Board of India has decided to issue Identity Cards to Street Dog Feeders/Colony Care Takers of Animals who are taking care of animals in their locality. A proforma of registration form can be downloaded from this link- http://awbi.org/awbi-pdf/caretakers.pdf or please…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, News Reports
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, current-events, Delhi, Delhi High Court, Dogs, India, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
This template letter on Google Docs is kind courtesy of the Voice of Stray Dogs, Bangalore and makes for a good resource material for those of you trying to educate their own residential societies (RWAs i.e. Resident Welfare Associations) on the…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Games people play, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Welfare Board of India, Constitution, Delhi High Court, India, Judiciary and the animals, RWAs, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs, Supreme Court of India
We are no experts and neither do we run an animal ambulance or hospital that tends to animals. We do it one street dog (or at best two or three) at a time and try to do our best in…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Rescue, Animals, Do-it-Yourself: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Dogs, first aid for dogs, first aid kit, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, sterilization surgeries, transportation, Veterinary aid
In the recent past, the Helpline at Jaagruti has received many calls from a lot of street dog lovers/pet owners in Gurgaon on the subject of their respective Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) barring them from keeping pets or feeding street…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Laws, Gurgaon, India, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, Pets, Residential societies cant ban people from having pets, RWAs, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
I am writing this post to share with you a very personal story that always springs back to our (me and my brother Vivek’s, we both co-founded Jaagruti) memories every Diwali or rather in the days nearing it, as we…
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Category: Be the Change, Do you know?, Environment, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, News Reports, Stories from Ground Zero, Take Action!
Tags: Anti-Fire cracker campaigns, Child Labour, Diwali, Fire Crackers, India, School
Over the past many months, Jaagruti’s helpline has been inundated with calls and queries from people across many major Indian cities, like Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and other metros where RWAs or Residential Welfare Associations that are formed in various societies…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets
Tags: Animal Laws, Dogs, India, Judiciary and the animals, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Pets, Residential societies cant ban people from having pets
As reported by Times of India’s Linah Baliga in a news report dated 17th April, 2012 MUMBAI: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has banned the use of live animals in dissection and other experiments in educational and…
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Category: Animal Laws of India, Animals, Do you know?, Information that empowers!, News Reports
Tags: Animal Dissection, Animals in Experimentation, CPCSEA, India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, MoEF, Pharmacy Council of India, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, University Grants Commission
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